Ford Escape 2020 – a new generation of Ford Escape crossover

The new Ford Escape is officially unveiled simultaneously with the new generation of the Ford Kuga crossover on April 2, 2019. However, if the new Ford Kuga is intended for the European market, the Ford Escape will be sold exclusively in America. Ford Escape 2019-2020 review – photos and videos, price and specifications and specifications of the Ford Escape compact crossover for the US market.

Sales of the new 2020 Ford Escape model will start in the US market in early autumn 2019 at a price of $ 25,000. Production of the new one is scheduled to begin early this summer at the Ford Motor Company in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky. Interestingly, the engines for the new generation Ford Escape will be supplied from the UK (petrol turbo triplets) from Spain (gasoline four-cylinder engines with turbo boost) and Mexico (petrol naturally aspirated engines for the hybrid version of the crossover).

Conventionally, the new crossover Ford Escape and Ford Kuga are twin brothers. However, with a closer acquaintance with the new Ford products, it seems that the cars have some differences, which we want to tell our readers about.

The Ford Escape crossover for the US market looks different from its European brother, the Ford Kuga, with a different design of the front and rear parts of the body. Escape from the small grille, the front bumper with the original plastic and peaceful, complemented by a solid plastic body kit and large foglights, another rear bumper with round exhaust tips.

The interior is completely identical to the Ford Escape of the Ford Kuga interior, of course, if you do not take into account the poor quality of materials and small details typical for cars sold in the US market (digitization of the speedometer in miles, nets for small items on the side of the central tunnel and other materials).

The new Ford Escape, like its European brother, will delight the owners with a digital instrument panel with a 12.3-inch display, a SYNC 3 multimedia system with an 8-inch color touch screen, a projection display, two-zone climate control with a comfortable control unit, standard with security systems Ford co-pilot360, the right inventory of seats in the first and second row, rear seats, moving along the inner 150 mm and a spacious luggage compartment, which is able to take behind the backs of the second row, when loaded from the ceiling, 1062 liters of cargo volume.

Perhaps all of the above differences between Ford Escape and Ford Kuga are so minimal that they are not worth attention. After the fun in the crossover technique.

Specifications Ford Escape 2019-2020.

• The base engine for the new generation Ford Escape is a petrol three-cylinder turbocharged 1.5 EcoBoost engine (180 hp 240 Nm) in the Company 8 with automatic transmission and front or all-wheel drive. The diesel “turbo troika” of the European Ford Kuga issues, depending on the strength of only 120 and 150 forces.
• Then, producing a more powerful four-cylinder 2.0 EcoBoost engine (250 hp and 372 Nm) mated to 8 automatic transmissions and all-wheel drive by default. The European crossover does not install such a motor.

For Ford Escape and Hybrid version:

• The Ford Escape Hybrid is equipped with a 198 horsepower hybrid powertrain consisting of gasoline, a naturally aspirated 2.5-liter Atkinson cycle engine, an electric motor, an electromechanical variator and a liquid-cooled battery clutch mounted under the second row of seats. Choice of front or all-wheel drive. The initial hybrid is capable of accelerating in pure electric driving mode at a top speed of 136 mph.
• The plug-in Ford Escape Hybrid is powered by a more powerful 209-horsepower hybrid powertrain (2.5-liter naturally aspirated electric, electromechanical CVT and traction battery). In electric mode, the battery hybrid can travel up to 48 km on stock electric fuel. The battery charging time from the mains with a voltage of VL 110 is 10-11 hours, more powerful networks of 240 VL reduce the charging time to 3.5 hours.